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Oh! I just realized that "All Across" is almost certainly referring to the song we have been calling "In A Hurricane's Eye," which has the repeated line "All across the world" as part of the hook: "In a hurricane's eye/People get by/living their lives/all across the world..." and "It's combustible/Inarguable/It's dangerous all across the world..." (No offense, Jeff, but I think "In A Hurricane's Eye" is a better title. )

Thanks for the info, O Tweedy Show Guru. I will amend titles in the setlist I posted above. I have my own notes of what new songs he played on which shows, but not with me. Which, in retrospect, was kinda dumb. Bad correspondent! OK, will amend my not-yet-complete report from above. I thought I would have remembered "Circumcised," but I guess it was one of those songs that he played once after he had just written it. Those are the hardest to place off the top of my head.

Well I'm not even sure where to go with this one, but somehow Jeff's 90-minute set tonight — his second of three solo outings at Largo during this five-show run — included a late discussion about buttplugs, splinters and the DeLorean from Back To The Future, a detailed explanation about his "main" guitar and why he hasn't used it as much lately, a new song that should probably be called "Circumcised" being played not once but twice, five more "new" songs in addition to that one and a Guided By Voices cover sung by a special guest vocalist. Oh, and before Jeff even took the stage, one of the mo

You want some punage, do you? Why you randy taffy…

Not that I'm a Largo insider, by any means, but you'll seem like more of a vet if you just say "Largo" and not "the Largo." Enjoy the show! Wish you could have made it here, man! It's been a nice week. And as has already been stated, Jeff hasn't said much about the development or eventual landing site for the new songs he's been playing. In fact, at this show he barely even acknowledged they're "new" songs! I do know that, as you said, he's constantly writing and, presumably refining, material. I think I made the comment during one of the Tweedy Show chats th

After seeing Jeff perform with both of his offspring and his other solo bandmates over the past few nights, crowding the relatively small Largo stage with a lot of people, instruments and gear, I have to admit it was a bit jarring to watch him walk on stage all by himself tonight with just an acoustic guitar in hand and not much else on stage with him besides two microphones, a small table and a spare guitar. He took note of the difference almost immediately, joking about how he had so much more space to wander around (which, of course, he barely used). No, this was a true solo aco

Before Jeff plays a few shows all by his lonesome here in Los Angeles and then in Texas, he bid farewell to his solo band — sadly, for who knows how long — with one more full set that once again demonstrated how talented each individual band member is and how well they have gelled as a unit. And once again, the band changed things up enough with the setlist to keep it interesting for those folks seeing more than one show, while also keeping the focus squarely on songs from Love Is The King and Jeff's other relatively recent solo work. While Jeff's Largo shows have always traditionally

Yeah, I always struggle with what to title this band. Because it's no longer TWEEDY, but it also doesn't feel entirely accurate to just say "Jeff Tweedy," even if that's what the show is billed as...

If I'm not mistaken, it has been nearly a decade now since Jeff started playing shows at the intimate and beloved Largo at the Coronet Theatre in West Hollywood. And if it wasn't clear by now that it's one of his favorite rooms anywhere in which to perform, then he said as much toward the end of tonight's show when he talked about how great the room sounded, alluded to the fact that the audience there really listens (in part because of the venue's total intolerance of electronic devices) and shared that he loved being able to play "quiet and sad" music that could also make people smile at the

Well, da then. You've got yer teatime reading for two.

Oh, didn't realize! He said the first night that it was his first show in, like, more than two years. Here’s a quick pic I snapped the first night:

Whot, no Barry O'bama?

A bit ramshackle, I'd say, though the walking boot he had on one foot didn't help his look. Better the second night than the first, though. He played in a duo, with a guy on keyboard whose name I didn't catch. More highlights: https://twitter.com/BastardMachine/status/1496345835575156736

Am I being kinda lazy by writing about both Fillmore shows in one recap? Yeah, I guess so. But I really do think, in this case, it would be difficult to talk about one show without the other in a lot of ways. As Jeff himself observed on Night 2 when he pointed out that he and his band would be playing a little longer set than the previous night and joked that the Night 2 audience members shouldn't tell anyone they knew who had been at Night 1, there was a natural tendency to compare the two shows, particularly after an opening night of the tour that perhaps was a bit rowdier than a

#IfEver #JustAGuy #TheyDontTellMeAnything

Of interest to no one, I finally finished up my recap from the final Wilco set of Sky Blue Sky in the original post. Basically added a few paragraphs, more or less rewriting the ones that somehow vanished from my post late that night/early that morning. And, as promised in that writeup, I'm also finally getting around to a brief comment/recap about the Autumn Defense set from earlier in the day. Not sure where else to put it, among the various threads, so I guess I'll just stick it here. For the general laid-back vibe of SBS, I don't know that anything captures it better than watch

Nice work, Tim. Finally had a chance to read, and I thought you did a good job capturing the general atmosphere of the event. As expected, some excellent photos all around. That one of Mavis and Jeff from the Beach stage is great! And thanks for the new nickname for Mr. Bull Black Nova; hope you don't mind if I use that moving forward. Just one note: Cut Your Hair was played at the all-request/all-covers set at Solid Sound in 2013, not 2015. Blasphemy, surely! Funny enough, I was wondering where the mariachi were this year. I didn't see them at all. They were

They didn't always have a poster for every show back then, and I'm not counting semi-generic local poster(s) created by the promoter or venue. Are you sure there was one?

Thanks for reading. And good to see you down there, Tim. Sorry we didn’t get a chance to chat longer. I’m sure you got some great shots, though. Looking forward to your recap.

Since it’s technically not a Wilco song, I don’t know if I can rank it in my top five Wilco songs. But I would if I could. And it’s been a highlight of the set since they started playing it more regularly the past couple of years.

Yes, first time by the “full” band. Jeff mentioned it afterward. I had it in my original post, but that was in the part that disappeared. I will add that and a few more paragraphs in tonight.

When you consider all of the challenges of putting on an international gathering during a global pandemic and all of the back-and-forth in recent weeks over whether people would come or should come, if refunds should be offered, if the event should be cancelled or postponed, how many people would test positive and be forced to quarantine, what acts would drop out and everything else, I suppose you could say that it was a minor miracle that the second edition of Wilco's Sky Blue Sky festival happened at all, much less happened and left people wanting more. And yet I think that is wh

Just for you, Herr Tatlock!

Oh so many memories, oh so many roads...

But it's just the two of us amigos talking to each other — and into the larger abyss — here, isn't it?